Example sentences of "he be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he been followed ? |
| 2 | Well , maybe they were n't his exact words , but I expect he would have come up with something like that had he been asked for his thoughts on Carter 's ‘ Only Living Boy In New Cross ’ . |
| 3 | For much of time he been joined by his wife Joanne , who has worked tirelessly with the country 's zoo to help care for captive chimpanzees and a small collection of other African animals . |
| 4 | Had he chosen a military life through love of the Motherland , or had he been channelled into it by the State that had reared him ? |
| 5 | Had he been interned until the end of the war in Tost or one of the other civilian camps , he would probably have faced no charges . |
| 6 | He said he would have done considerably better had he been granted anything approaching equal access to the media and had tricks not been played against him . |
| 7 | Had he been charged with the more serious offence of causing death by reckless driving , he would have faced a Crown court and a jail sentence of up to five years . |
| 8 | Why had n't he been given a medal ? |
| 9 | The streetwise young black would have done just that , had he been given the chance . |
| 10 | Had he been shot ? |
| 11 | Why had n't he been called earlier ? |
| 12 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |
| 13 | For Charles it may have meant political survival , for perhaps he really would have been tonsured had he been defeated . |
| 14 | ‘ But on a point of handicapping , why has he been raised 4lb after finishing second in the Mackeson , while Desert Orchid has been dropped 2lb for finishing second to Long Engagement ? ’ |
| 15 | In United 's progress to the top of the First Division and to tomorrow 's final , Schmeichel has kept 23 clean sheets and on only five occasions has he been beaten more than once . |
| 16 | At such times you need to turn to a wise and experienced adviser who might well have steered you clear of the mistake had he been consulted earlier . |
| 17 | In April 1816 , musing after John Brownrigg 's death , he says he might have thought differently of him had he been born in Ambleside , ‘ the moral code of the people here not being like that of many other places . ’ |
| 18 | I found his blend of assurance , diffidence and wit beguiling , and I have often wondered what he might have done had he been born free . |
| 19 | Not , that is , more of a Chinaman : had he been born in Peking , no doubt he would have disappointed patriots there too . |
| 20 | Why , Mr M wanted to know , had he been sent to Sanday at all ? |
| 21 | Copsey is nor a dirty player and it would have been tragic had he been sent off in his first international ’ — IEUAN EVANS ( Wales captain ) on the Tony Copsey incident in Dublin against Ireland . |
| 22 | Millwall chairman Reg Burr says : ‘ Many people would not have been surprised had he been sent off . |
| 23 | Is Norman Lamont going has he been sacked . |
| 24 | Had he been hurt too ? |
| 25 | Had Waddell 's trial in Edinburgh not been the farce it was , had he been found guilty of the murder of Mrs Ross as he should have been and sentenced by Lord Robertson to life imprisonment , as he should have been , it would seem likely that Mrs Chipperfield would be alive today . |
| 26 | Why had he been imprisoned ? |
| 27 | Has he been arrested ? |
| 28 | Nor had he been interviewed by any policeman or other official whatsoever during the five months of his stay in Long Kesh Detention Camp . |
| 29 | Why had he been set up as Don Roberto 's murderer ? |
| 30 | Or had he been immersed in his Black Arts , calling up a demon from hell in some lonely wood or deserted copse ? |